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And censure, wisely loud, be justly mute![42] Oh! since your fiat stamps the Drama's laws, Forbear to mock us with misplaced applause; So Pride shall doubly nerve the actor's powers, And Reason's voice be echoed back by ours! This greeting o'er--the ancient rule obeyed,[43] The Drama's homage by her herald paid-- Receive _our welcome_ too--whose every tone Springs from our hearts, and fain would win your own. The curtain rises--may our stage unfold 70 Scenes not unworthy Drury's days of old! Britons our judges, Nature for our guide, Still may _we_ please--long, long may _you_ preside. [First published, _Morning Chronicle_, Oct. 12, 1812.] PARENTHETICAL ADDRESS.[44] BY DR. PLAGIARY. _Half stolen_, with acknowledgments, to be spoken in an inarticulate voice by Master ---- at the opening of the next new theatre. [Stolen parts marked with the inverted commas of quotation--thus "----".] "When energising objects men pursue," Then Lord knows what is writ by Lord knows who. A modest Monologue you here survey, Hissed from the theatre the "other day," As if Sir Fretful wrote "the slumberous" verse, And gave his son "the rubbish" to rehearse. "Yet at the thing you'd never be amazed," Knew you the rumpus which the Author raised; "Nor even here your smiles would be represt," Knew you these lines--the badness of the best, 10 "Flame! fire! and flame!" (words borrowed from Lucretius.[45]) "Dread metaphors" which open wounds like issues! "And sleeping pangs awake--and----But away"-- (Confound me if I know what next to say). Lo "Hope reviving re-expands her wings," And Master G---- recites what Dr. Busby sings!-- "If mighty things with small we may compare," (Translated from the Grammar for the fair!) Dramatic "spirit drives a conquering car," And burn'd poor Moscow like a tub of "tar." 20 "This spirit" "Wellington has shown in Spain," To furnish Melodrames for Drury Lane. "Another Marlborough points to Blenheim's story," And George and I will dramatise it for ye. "In Arts and Sciences our Isle hath shone" (This deep discovery is mine alone). Oh "British poesy, whose powers inspire" My verse--or
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